Recommended Reading

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I've tried reading books from Asimov's Foundation universe but I've never liked any of what I read. I absolutely adore his robot universe novels though.

A relatively newish SF author I can highly recommend is China Miéville. I've only read his book Perdido Street Station so far but the sequel The Scar has been on my to-read-list for way too long. Perdido is a story set in a kinda fantasy-ish Victorian-era-style tech world (bit hard to describe really). I found it a very refreshing book and hard to put down.

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For a cool cat-fantasy I suggest Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song. Simply a brilliant book, I first read it when I was about 12 and have read it more than ten times since.

Oh and the Otherland series of 4 (very thick!) books by Williams is also simply brilliant. Bit cyberpunkish and very adventerous(sp?) saga about a bunch of people who end up in a virtual cyberspace world trying to save the life of a lot of kids who went into a coma while plugged in into cyberspace.